President Obama’s recent speech about the benefits of renewable energy in mitigating climate change and increasing employment prompted a release from Cape Wind Communications Director Mark Rodgers. He said the Nantucket Sound project has been cited by the Natural Resources Defense Council as “the largest single source of supply-side reductions in the CO2 currently proposed in the U.S.”

Rodgers wrote that Europe has seen the construction of 55 offshore wind farms and the creation of 35,000 jobs in the offshore industry.